Emma Yapp is my great-great-great-grandmother. She married William Whittingham and had three children, William, Fred and Walter. William married Sarah Ellen Jones and had children John, Frank, Wilfred, George, Phyliss, Mary. William remarried to Edith Matilda Jones and had children Lynn, Trixie, Eileen, Jean and Joyce. Fred married Sarah Jane Higgins and had children Billy, Beryl and Alfreda. Walter married Mary Watkin and had children Ivor, Mollie, Bill and Bryan.
William's first wife Sarah Ellen Jones died very young whilst William was at war, so his children of his first marriage were sent to different relatives to be raised. My great-grandfather George ended up being raised by Emma Yapp, so he knew her as mum. George went on to marry Nell Burd, and had children Roy, Marie, Gloria, Caryl, and Tony.
Emma Yapp was the daughter of John Yapp and Mary Lewis. Emma died in 1935 and is buried in Montgomery Churchyard, no headstone, but I do know the location of burial.
